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BComplex

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9. Ayn Rand still lives on in the republican party, and in the academia of the University of

Reply to GiqueCee (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:01 AM

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Chicago. I wish her shit would have died with her.

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Alan Greenspan, economist and longtime head of the Federal Reserve, dies at 100 [View all] BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago OP

Happy Days Are Here Again bucolic_frolic 11 hrs ago #1

About Fucking time GCG 11 hrs ago #2

Why do people like him and Kissinger live so long? raccoon 11 hrs ago #3

because they are ungodly wealthy and afford the best treatment. Javaman 11 hrs ago #5

And Dick Cheney. And now Donald Trump...only 80, but who has done 100 years BComplex 10 hrs ago #8

how about that. nt Javaman 11 hrs ago #4

My mother taught me to speak only good of the dead. Martin Eden 10 hrs ago #6

It should be noted... GiqueCee 10 hrs ago #7

Ayn Rand still lives on in the republican party, and in the academia of the University of BComplex 10 hrs ago #9

Likewise, I'm sure... GiqueCee 10 hrs ago #12

my uncle gave me the paperbacks he bought for his wife. i tried to read atlas shrugged. i couldn't finish the1st pansypoo53219 6 hrs ago #29

"Rand hated altruism in any and every form, and ranted against it at every possible opportunity." BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago #11

Why write Rand's real name? nt SouthBayDem 10 hrs ago #13

Why not? GiqueCee 9 hrs ago #14

Never knew her real name mountain grammy 9 hrs ago #16

Back in the sixties... GiqueCee 9 hrs ago #20

Ironically radical noodle 10 hrs ago #10

Another Ayn Rand kook that destroyed this country. Good riddance! OhioBack2Blue 9 hrs ago #15

Greenspan read Atlas Shrugged lildDemz 9 hrs ago #17

Yet, just another Republican popsdenver 9 hrs ago #18

Good riddance. Aristus 9 hrs ago #19

Let me know where they're planting him. TygrBright 9 hrs ago #21

We Come To Bury Greenspan modrepub 8 hrs ago #22

He caused a great deal of real harm. Chaunceuy was just a puppet. Martin68 6 hrs ago #28

He did a lot of economic damage. Grins 8 hrs ago #23

RIP. He served his country the best he thought fit. Did not enriched himself question everything 7 hrs ago #24

Here BumRushDaShow 7 hrs ago #25

why bring image from, when 1978? And, Ayn Rand was pro choice, for what its is worth question everything 3 hrs ago #36

Libertarians like Rand & Ron Paul and even idiots like Bill Maher, are also "pro-choice" BumRushDaShow 3 hrs ago #37

Hmm. PuraVidaDreamin 6 hrs ago #26

I don't believe "he was always honest in acknowledging his mistakes." Martin68 6 hrs ago #27

how did he knot know INFLATION. he fucked up the social security fix BIG TIME. pansypoo53219 6 hrs ago #30

Fascist slime shouldn't live this long. BlueTsunami2018 6 hrs ago #31

Good effing riddance Wild blueberry 6 hrs ago #32

He probably should have stuck to the clarinet n/t BaronChocula 5 hrs ago #33

Sorry, Alan, you just couldn't put off dying forever. generalbetrayus 5 hrs ago #34

He's one of the he-men who silenced and marginalized Brooksley Born after she.. CousinIT 5 hrs ago #35

Here I thought guys stopped reading Ayn Rand at the age when their acne cleared up GenThePerservering 1 hr ago #38